links/enlaces, etc.
Many museums have textile collections
that include shawls from Europe,
India/Kashmir and China.
If you are ever in Madrid, be sure to visit the Museo de Traje.
They always have
a few wonderful antique mantones de Manila (Chinese embroidered shawls)
on display.
Some of the museums in
Seville like the
Museo de Artes y
costumbres populares de Sevilla
also display mantones.
Here is a portal to museums in Andalucía. http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/
cultura/museos/?lng=es
The Museu Textil i d'Indumentaria
in Barcelona also has a collection
of antique mantones de Manila.
The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art
in Santa Fe, New Mexico
has also shawls. Back in the summer of 2004, there was an exhibit of Mantones de Manila.
The Peabody Essex Museum,
16 miles north of Boston, at 137 Essex St. in historic Salem, Massachusetts has a great collection of Chinese Export Art. They have a collection of Chinese embroidered shawls, but not always displayed. The museum owns an incredible Chinese embroidered shawl that onced belonged to Queen Victoria.
The Victoria and Albert Museum
in London, in their vast collections, has a great collection of shawls including samples of Chinese embroidered ones. (Visit this page to see somone's pictures of one of the museum's Chinese shawls: http://picasaweb.google.com/wheeler....)
New Shawls
Here is the website of Angeles Espinar, one of the leading manton designer/maker in Spain.
http://www.angelesespinar.com
The Forondas are well-known makers of shawls in Seville. Here are some links.
Bordados Foronda
Juan Foronda
Artesanía Textil
has a variety of embroidered shawls and mantillas.
Check out the desfiles section with pictures of models with new and old shawls.
Carayan Press Home
news and events
of interest:
Exhibit in Manila.
Draped in Silk: The Journey of the Manton de Manila
Story of a 16th century precious cargo, of Chinese silk embroidery, of maritime trade between Asia and Europe
With sections on the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade and Philippine embroidery traditions, contemporary works by 18 artists and designers from various creative disciplines.
3/F Cone Room and Bridgeway Gallery
July 1, 2009 - December 29, 2009
Yuchengco Museum
RCBC Plaza
Corner Ayala and Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenues
Makati City 1200
Philippines
Tel: (632) 889.1234
Fax: (632) 887.5144
E-mail: info@yuchengcomuseum.org
http://www.yuchengcomuseum.org
flamenco dance
performances with shawls
Sevillanas con mantón
baile
View Sevillanas
danced with a mantón:
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/
sevillanas-con-manton/2809422675
Actuación Enguera
Sevillanas con mantón
http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=SEnWfoeqnJ8&
feature=related
Soleá del mantón
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=jbNhOab1p2E
Delia/Locura
Baile con mantón
http://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=l3vHNYe4dU
w&feature=related
Delia/Romance de la pena negra-
Et Les Pleurs
Baile con mantón
Baile en Almería
Baile con mantón
How to dance with
a small shawl/Flamenco
(In English)
YouTube
Compañía Felix Amador
Baile con mantón
excerpts from the famous zarzuela
La verbena de la paloma
¿Dónde vas con mantón
de Manila?
¿Dónde vas con mantón
de Manila?
La verbena de la paloma
Enlaces (Connections That Bind Us)
El Mantón de Manila
presented by
La Peña Cultural Center
in collaboration with
Gabriela Shiroma (CulturARTE), Carayan Press, PAWA, Inc.,
Community Music Center-San Francisco
Saturday, February 20, 2010
8:00 pm
La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, California
Through story, music and dance, this program will explore
the cultural links that developed during the Spanish colonial period,
highlighting the silk embroidered shawl or mantón de Manila
as a cultural link connecting the Philippines, Mexico, Peru and Spain.
Featuring:
María de la Rosa & Rudy Figueroa - Mexican Dance
Parangal Dance Company - Philippine Folk Dance
Theresa Calpotura-Classical Guitar
Asociación Cultural Kanchis - Peruvian Dance
De Rompe y Raja - Afro-Peruvian Cultural Association
Javier Trujillo - Peruvian Guitar
Virginia Iglesias - Flamenco Dance
Jorge Liceaga - Spanish Guitar
Edwin Lozada - Poetry
Paul Flores - Narrator
Exhibition of Mantones de Manila -
Courtesy of Edwin Lozada (Carayan Press)
Youtube: Desfile de mantones de Manila from the above show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfw_EfFgnY8
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